meloktaMeet the piano keys
Touch the white and black keys and discover the low sounds on the left and the high sounds on the right.
Grades 1–2 · Piano / Listening, NotesPlay on the piano →LISTEN · TRY · LEARN
Choose a little discovery.
Everything here works in English: 84 interactive lessons — 40 for piano, 12 for bass drum and snare, 8 for a virtual trumpet, 12 for recorder and 12 for xylophone — with real playing, feedback and stars. Filter by instrument, level, grade, topic, time or progress. Teachers can see each lesson’s learning goal and classroom notes.
84 lessons · 40 piano · 12 drums · 8 trumpet · 12 recorder · 12 xylophone
Black keys and white keys
Discover that black keys come in groups of two and three; press them one by one and together.
Grades 1–2 · Piano / NotesPlay on the piano →Finding C
C is just to the left of the two black keys. Find every C on the keyboard.
Grades 1–2 · Piano / NotesPlay on the piano →Learning D and E
D sits between the two black keys and E is just to their right. Build your first staircase with C–D–E.
Grades 1–2 · Piano / Notes, MelodyPlay on the piano →Learning F, G and A
Use the group of three black keys to find F, G and A.
Grades 1–2–3 · Piano / Notes, MelodyPlay on the piano →Playing the whole scale: C to C
Find B and play the whole row of notes from C up to high C.
Grades 1–2–3 · Piano / Notes, MelodyPlay on the piano →Press the note I say
Hear or read a note name and find it on the piano right away.
Grades 1–2–3 · Piano / Notes, ListeningPlay on the piano →Play the note you see
See where the note sits on the staff (five lines) and play it on the piano.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / NotesPlay on the piano →Find the note you hear
Listen to a mystery note and find which key it is.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Listening, NotesPlay on the piano →Low to high: putting notes in order
Play the mixed-up notes in order, from the lowest sound to the highest.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Notes, ListeningPlay on the piano →High to low: putting notes in order
This time start with the highest sound and go down to the lowest.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Notes, ListeningPlay on the piano →Mixed-up note game
Name, staff and sound: find notes with three kinds of clues. Get a bonus for a streak!
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Notes, ListeningPlay on the piano →Long and short sounds
Hold a key down for a long sound, or let go right away for a short one. Then decide with your ears.
Grades 1–2–3 · Piano / Rhythm, ListeningPlay on the piano →Playing quarter notes in time
Play one note on every beat, right together with the tick-tock.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / RhythmPlay on the piano →Half notes and quarter notes
A half note lasts two beats: press the key and hold it for two beats.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / RhythmPlay on the piano →Echoing three-note melodies
The app plays a three-note melody and shows the keys. Then you play the same.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Piano / Melody, ListeningPlay on the piano →Playing five-note melodies
Five fingers, five notes: play short melodies by looking at the notes and finger numbers.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Melody, NotesPlay on the piano →Repeating a melody I hear
This time the keys aren’t shown. Just listen to the melody and repeat it by ear.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Melody, ListeningPlay on the piano →C–D–E melodies
Play two original songs that use only C, D and E.
Grades 1–2–3 · Piano / Melody, NotesPlay on the piano →My first five-note song
Learn ‘Butterfly’, a song with the five notes from C to G, piece by piece, then play it all.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Melody, NotesPlay on the piano →An eight-bar melody
Practice the eight-bar ‘Song of the Wind’ as two four-bar phrases.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Melody, NotesPlay on the piano →A short right-hand song
Learn ‘Raindrop’ with right-hand finger numbers, then play it in time.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Melody, RhythmPlay on the piano →Making my own melody
Write your own 8-note melody with the notes from C to G, listen to it and play it again.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / MelodyPlay on the piano →Beginner piano check-up
A little bit of everything you’ve learned: finding notes, the staff, listening, ordering, rhythm and melody.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Notes, Melody, Rhythm, ListeningPlay on the piano →Meeting my left hand
Put the five fingers of your left hand in low C position and play the low notes.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Notes, Two handsPlay on the piano →Reading the bass clef
Low sounds are written on the bass clef staff. Read the bass clef notes and play them with your left hand.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Notes, Two handsPlay on the piano →Taking turns with my hands
Left hand, right hand! Take turns with your hands in question-and-answer and ball-bouncing games.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Two hands, MelodyPlay on the piano →Playing with both hands together
Both hands at once: play the same notes together, one octave apart.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Two handsPlay on the piano →Mirror moves: hands in opposite directions
One hand climbs up while the other walks down. A mirror game with the same finger numbers!
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Two handsPlay on the piano →Left-hand bass, right-hand melody
The left hand plays a low bass note at the start of each bar, and the right hand plays the melody.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Two hands, MelodyPlay on the piano →The C major chord
When C, E and G are played together, they make a C chord. Play the chord with your right hand, your left hand and as a broken chord.
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / ChordsPlay on the piano →The F and G chords
Play the F and G chords without leaving C position, and build the skeleton of a song with three chords.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / ChordsPlay on the piano →Accompanying with chords
While the right hand plays the melody, the left hand accompanies with the root note of each chord.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Chords, Two hands, MelodyPlay on the piano →Happy or sad? Major and minor chords
A major chord sounds cheerful; a minor chord sounds sad. Find the one-note difference with your ears.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Chords, ListeningPlay on the piano →Keeping the beat with broken chords
Play the notes of each chord one after another, in time, to make a smooth accompaniment pattern.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Chords, RhythmPlay on the piano →Climbing up the staff
Read and play the high notes on the treble clef (D5–G5).
Grades 3–4 · Piano / NotesPlay on the piano →Eighth notes and rests
Two eighth notes make one quarter note: ‘ti-ti’. On a rest, you don’t play at all.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / RhythmPlay on the piano →Melody memory chain
The app plays a melody chain, and every round the chain gets one note longer. How long a chain can you remember?
Grades 2–3–4 · Piano / Melody, ListeningPlay on the piano →Waltz in three-four time
One–two–three! The left hand plays the first beat and the right hand plays two light chords: the waltz rhythm.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Rhythm, Two hands, ChordsPlay on the piano →A little two-hand concert
Give a concert with what you’ve learned: a two-hand song, chords, rhythm and memory.
Grades 3–4 · Piano / Two hands, Chords, Notes, Rhythm, MelodyPlay on the piano →Keeping a steady pulse
Play once on every beat, together with the metronome clicks.
Grades 1–2 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Slow and fast tempo
Play the same rhythm at tortoise speed and at hare speed.
Grades 1–2–3 · Bass drum and snare / Rhythm, ListeningPlay on the pads →Keeping the pulse when the metronome stops
After four clicks the metronome goes quiet. Keep the pulse inside you and keep playing.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Reading quarter notes and rests
Read the rhythm cards: play on a quarter note, wait on a rest.
Grades 1–2–3 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Eighth notes: ti-ti
Two eighth notes last as long as one quarter note. Play them quickly: ti-ti.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Three-four time: ONE-two-three
Some music is counted in threes. Bass drum at the start of the bar, then two snares.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Bass drum and snare together
Hit both pads at the same time! Play with two hands (or press F and J together).
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / RhythmPlay on the pads →Rhythm memory chain
Hear a chain of bass drum and snare sounds; it gets one beat longer every round. Play it back in the same order.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / Listening, RhythmPlay on the pads →Playing along with music (ostinato)
While the piano plays a melody, you play the same short rhythm again and again.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / Rhythm, ListeningPlay on the pads →Question and answer: replying with my own rhythm
The program asks a rhythm question; you answer with your own rhythm of the same length.
Grades 3–4 · Bass drum and snare / Rhythm, CreativityPlay on the pads →Writing my own rhythm
Write your own 8-beat rhythm with the bass drum and the snare, then play it in tempo.
Grades 2–3–4 · Bass drum and snare / Rhythm, CreativityPlay on the pads →Rhythm check-up
Small tasks from everything you’ve learned in the drum lessons: listening, pulse, reading, memory and improvising.
Grades 3–4 · Bass drum and snare / Rhythm, Listening, CreativityPlay on the pads →Three open notes: slow, medium and fast air
Without pressing any valves, make three different sounds just by changing how fast you blow.
Grades 1–2 · Trumpet / Breath, ListeningPlay the trumpet →Low sound or high sound?
Compare how high or low the open notes are, and put the sounds in order from low to high.
Grades 1–2 · Trumpet / Listening, BreathPlay the trumpet →The first valves: F and E
Play F with the first valve and E with the first and second valves, then walk down the G–F–E stairs.
Grades 1–2–3 · Trumpet / Notes, BreathPlay the trumpet →Five notes from C to G
Learn D and play the C–D–E–F–G row up and down.
Grades 2–3 · Trumpet / Notes, MelodyPlay the trumpet →Playing the note on the staff
Recognise a note from the staff instead of its name, and play it on the trumpet.
Grades 2–3–4 · Trumpet / NotesPlay the trumpet →Long and short sounds, rhythm with breath
Control your breath: hold long sounds, stop short ones, and play rhythms with quarter and half notes.
Grades 2–3–4 · Trumpet / Rhythm, BreathPlay the trumpet →Listen and play: melody echo
Listen to short melodies, find them by ear and play them back; finish the memory chain.
Grades 2–3–4 · Trumpet / Listening, MelodyPlay the trumpet →High notes and my first trumpet song
Learn A, B and high C with fast air, then play the song ‘Morning Call’, first note by note and then in tempo.
Grades 3–4 · Trumpet / Notes, Melody, RhythmPlay the trumpet →Meeting the recorder
Choose the holes, blow and stop the sound. Our first note is G.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Learning the finger holes
Thumb hole 0 is on the back; holes 1–7 are on the front.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Playing G, A and B
Small finger movements between three neighbouring sounds.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Learning high C and D
Both notes cover only front hole 2; the thumb makes the difference.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Playing E and F
Baroque F uses a forked pattern rather than simply opening holes in order.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Learning low C and D
Cover every hole for low C; open the last hole for D.
Grades 1–2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Finding the right fingering
Answer mixed notes with the right finger pattern.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Notes, ListeningOpen recorder lesson →Echoing three-note melodies
Three different short phrases using G, A and B.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Melody, RhythmOpen recorder lesson →Playing five-note melodies
Rise and fall through G–A–B–C–D.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Melody, RhythmOpen recorder lesson →Playing recorder in rhythm
Play for one beat, hold for two; listen to the rests too.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Melody, RhythmOpen recorder lesson →My first recorder song
Learn the original Melokta tune “Little Breeze”, one phrase at a time.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Melody, RhythmOpen recorder lesson →Recorder beginner review
Try fingering, listening, duration and melody skills together.
Grades 2–3–4 · Recorder / Melody, RhythmOpen recorder lesson →Meeting the parts of the xylophone
Get to know the wooden bars, the mallets and the resonator tubes, and discover that a long bar sounds low and a short bar sounds high.
Grades 1–2 · Xylophone / Listening, NotesPlay the xylophone →Exploring the bars and their sounds
Play all eight bars from left to right and from right to left, and hear the sounds get higher and lower.
Grades 1–2 · Xylophone / ListeningPlay the xylophone →Playing C, D and E
Learn the names of the first three bars: C, D and E. Find the note whose name you see and play short staircases.
Grades 1–2 · Xylophone / NotesPlay the xylophone →Learning F and G
Find the F and G bars, then play the five-note staircase from C to G in both directions.
Grades 1–2–3 · Xylophone / Notes, MelodyPlay the xylophone →Playing A, B and high C
Learn the three shortest bars and play the whole eight-note row from C to high C.
Grades 1–2–3 · Xylophone / NotesPlay the xylophone →Putting notes in order from low to high
Listen to mixed-up notes and put them in order from low to high and from high to low.
Grades 2–3 · Xylophone / Listening, NotesPlay the xylophone →Finding the notes I see
Recognise a note from its place on the staff, not from its name, and strike the right bar.
Grades 2–3–4 · Xylophone / NotesPlay the xylophone →Playing back three notes I hear
Listen to short melodies and play them back in the same order, first while the bars light up and then with your ears only.
Grades 2–3–4 · Xylophone / Listening, MelodyPlay the xylophone →Playing with quarter and half notes
Listen to the metronome clicks; count one beat for a quarter note and two beats for a half note, and strike right on time.
Grades 2–3–4 · Xylophone / RhythmPlay the xylophone →Playing five-note melodies
Play short melodies with the five bars from C to G, then play the last one in tempo with the tick-tock.
Grades 2–3–4 · Xylophone / MelodyPlay the xylophone →Learning my first xylophone song
Learn the song ‘Wooden Rain’ phrase by phrase, play it from the staff and finish with two mallets.
Grades 3–4 · Xylophone / Melody, RhythmPlay the xylophone →Beginner xylophone check-up
Small tasks from everything you’ve learned: finding notes, the staff, listening, ordering, two mallets, melody and rhythm.
Grades 3–4 · Xylophone / Notes, Listening, Melody, RhythmPlay the xylophone →More activities in Turkish
All piano, drum, trumpet, recorder and xylophone lessons are available in English. The 12 Rhythm Echo games are only available in Turkish for now — we haven’t translated them yet.
Türkçe etkinlikler →Meet the recorder
Baroque fingerings, breath control and 12 interactive lessons.
Play recorder → Discover lessons →Meet the xylophone
8 wooden bars, two mallets, three practice modes (Learn, Listen and Repeat, Rhythm) and 12 interactive lessons.
Play xylophone → Discover lessons →